Edmund Lee

Edmund Lee is a writer in New York who covers media companies for Bloomberg News. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Conde Nast Portfolio, Advertising Age and elsewhere.

The Cable Show, the industry’s annual gathering that’s happening this week under the blazing Los Angeles sun, had no shortage of news to pick apart given Comcast’s $45 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable announced in February as well as...

Lisa Belkin, a senior columnist for the Huffington Post writing about motherhood and work, will be leaving the website to work for Yahoo. She joins other brand name journalists Yahoo recently hired such as former New York Times tech...

CNN sold its software unit Zite to Flipboard, which makes a competing news-reader application, in a deal that gives the media company a small equity stake in the startup, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. No...

Forbes, the millionaire moniker signifying wealth and all its triumphs, is now trying to make a name for itself in online education. The magazine publisher just sold part of its naming rights to an online, for-profit education venture: Ashford’s College...

Sam Schwartz, chief business development officer at Comcast Cable, talks with Bloomberg’s Edmund Lee and Alex Sherman about See It. The new technology will enable Comcast customers to watch NBC Universal network and cable shows directly from Twitter’s applications. A...

Speculation over U.S. cable consolidation has diminished the chances of deals getting done quickly as stocks such as Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems become more expensive, according to Craig Moffett, co-founder of research firm MoffettNathanson. Bloomberg’s Alex Sherman and Edmund Lee...

Dish Network and Walt Disney are trying to avoid a TV blackout by coming to terms before the end of September. Can they reach a deal, or will we see Time Warner Cable/CBS part two? Bloomberg’s Alex Sherman and Edmund...

In this week’s episode of The Inside Scoop: Podcast on the Media Industry, New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter speaks with Bloomberg’s Edmund Lee and Alex Sherman about his career, hosting CNN’s Reliable Sources, the future of local newspapers,...

For this week’s episode of The Inside Scoop: Podcast on the Media Industry, Brian Morrissey, editor-in-chief of Digiday, the digital media, marketing and advertising website, speaks with Bloomberg’s Edmund Lee and Alex Sherman about the motivation behind the merger of...